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| Her name means 'She Who Loves {Silence';} the goddess of the mountain overlooking the Valley of the Kings. She was a cobra goddess who would spit venom at anyone attempting to disturb one of the valley's royal tombs. Who was she? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Meretseger. Occasionally she would also manifest herself as a scorpion with a woman's head. Meretseger was especially revered by the inhabitants of Deir el-Medina who were responsible for building the royal tombs (they called her 'Lady of the Peak'). She was believed to strike at workers who committed crimes, but if the victim repented of their actions, she mercifully would heal the wound she had inflicted.
Hades. It is the abode of the spirits of the deceased where judgement was passed by Osiris.
| He is an ancient jackal-headed god of the dead, in later mythology identified with Osiris. Who is he? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Khentamenti. Khentamenti is 'He who is in the West', the god of the cemetary at Abydos, to whom the dead went. Meskhenet is a goddess who acted as a midwife and who presided over the birth-chamber. Ailuros is another name for Bastet. Nut is a sky-goddess.
| The name of a {demon;} sometimes clearly female and human, sometimes with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a wild cat and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus. Who is she? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Ammit. Ammit ('devouress of the dead') sits under the Scales of Justice, in the Hall of the Two Truths, in the House of Osiris.
| The Egyptian god-personification of Fate. His name and that of Renenet (Fortune) are usually found coupled. They are said to be in the hands of Thoth, the divine intelligence of of the gods. Who was he? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Shai. Rameses II boasted that he himself is 'lord of Shai and creator of Renenet.' Shai was originally the deity who 'fated' what should happen to a man. There was little or no distinction between Shai and Renenet and the abstract ideas which they represented. In the Papyrus of Ani, Shai stands by himself near the pillar of Balance.
Hie. Ha is the Egyptian god of the west and of the western desert. Heh is primordial god of Egypt - together with his female counterpart Hauhet he represents infinity. Hah is the god of the sky, the personification of eternity and the infinite sky.
| The term to denote the divine council of gods and goddesses in {general;} in specific, the group of the nine chief deities of the Osirian cycle in ancient Egyptian myth. Which word fits this description? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Ennead. The Ennead includes Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthy.
| It consists of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world. What is it? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Ogdoad. The pairs of the Ogdoad are Nun and Naunet (the primordial water), Huh and Hauhet (infinite space), Kuk and Kauket (darkness), and Amun and Amaunet (representing hidden powers). They created the mound upon which to lay the egg from which the sun god emerged. The gods of the Ogdoad are represented as frogs or with the head of a {frog;} the goddesses in the shape of a snake or as a woman with the head of a snake. Their cult centered on the town of Khemnu (Greek Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt. They also had a sanctuary at Medinet Habu in western Thebes.
| Imset (human), Hapi (baboon), Duamutef (jackal), and Kebechsenef (falcon) represent the four cardinal directions and are also portrayed on the four corners of the sarcophagus. They are what? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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the Sons of Horus. They assist the deceased during their journey to the underworld. They protect the canopic jars (jars where the viscera are kept after mummification). Their heads are depicted on the lids of those jars.
| In Egyptian mythology, the human personality has five specific constituents. What are they called? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Akh, Ka, Ba, Name and Shadow. Ba is the soul of the {deceased;} Ka is the spirit and life-force of both humans and gods. The Akh has been referred to as a kind of glorified being of light (spirit). The Akh is sometimes defined as the combination of the Ka and Ba, other times it is the Akh and Ba which make up the Ka. (Name and Shadow are considered fairly self-explanitory).
the gods' supernatural powers. He is regarded as the eldest son of Atum. Doctors, who invoked his magical powers when practicing their arts, called themselves 'priests of Hike'.
| He is mentioned three times in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He is the 'firstborn son of Osiris', and seems the be one of the gods of generation. Who is he? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Beb. Nephthys is the 'Friend of the Dead,' and is first mentioned in Old Kingdom funerary literature as riding the 'night boat' of the underworld. Har-sa-iset is a form of the god Horus, specifically as the son of Isis. Seth is the brother of Isis and killer of Osiris.
Chnum, Menhit and Hike. Menhit is the ancient Egyptian lion-goddess and a goddess of war. She is the wife of Chnum, ram god who makes the Nile delta fertile and suitable for agriculture (considered the creator of humans). Hike is Menhit's son.
| She is the Goddess of Good Fortune and Childbirth. She was shown as a mixture of a hippopotamus' body, a crocodile's head, and a lion's feet. Who is she? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Taurt. Popular with the ordinary men and women, she was responsible for fertility and protecting women before, during, and after childbirth. Her husband was Bes, the God of Pleasure
| Though not his main position, he was worshipped as a fertility, resurrection, and vegetation god. He was married to a sky goddess. He was father to the god of the sky and protector of the dead. Who was he? | Tough Egyptian Mythology
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Osiris. His main position was the god of the underworld.
Bastet. The cat-headed goddess, Bastet was strictly a solar deity until the arrival of Greek influence on Egyptian society, when she became a lunar goddess due to the Greeks associating her with their Artemis. Because of this association, and of Horus with Apollo, Bastet became adopted into the Osiris-Isis myth as their daughter, an association not made previous to the arrival of Hellenistic influence on Egypt.
Thoth. Thoth's head is that of a bird, the ibis (common in Egypt). The curved beak of Thoth's ibis head is symbolic of the moon in crescent form!
Atum. The name Atum means 'the Whole' or 'the Complete'. Atum represented the primordial chaos before the creation...and he was later merged with Ra (Ra-Atum).
| In the Helipolitan system, what was the name for the immense chaos that preceded creation? | Egyptian Mythos Quiz
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Nun. Nun was an ocean or shapeless magma containing potential life, a primordial soup of sorts.
| What was the name for the boat that Ra, the sun god, took during his nighttime journey? | Egyptian Mythos Quiz
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Mesektet. Ra carried the moon across the sky in his boat Mesektet, and also transported the solar disc across the sky during the day in another boat.
| Which Egyptian town, because of its system of four primary gods and their female counterparts, was called 'Khmoun' or 'City of the Eight'? | Egyptian Mythos Quiz
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Hermopolis. The Hermopolitan gods and goddesses are collectively known as the ogdoad (meaning 8). These deities were superceded by the Heliopolitan gods in later Egypt.
| What is the name of the basalt stone left to us from the 8th century B.C. which enumerates the features of Memphite theology? | Egyptian Mythos Quiz
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Shabaka Stone. This stone is but one of several stones containing hieroglyphic records of Egyptian history and theology. The creator god of Memphite myth was Ptah, mentioned in the following question.
Ptah. Ptah created the first gods in his mind and then gave them physical form using stone and metal.
Mut. Mut, meaning 'mother'. Mut appeared in the form of a cow or a cat (and was often identified with Hathor (cow) and Bastet (cat) respectively).
Osiris. Formerly the supreme god of the Egyptian pantheon, he was killed by his brother Seth and later became the god of the underworld and resurrection.
| Where did Isis find the trunk containing the body of Osiris, hidden by his jealous brother Seth? | Egyptian Mythos Quiz
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In a sycamore tree. The chest was finally found by Osiris' wife Isis in Byblos, a town in Phoenicia. Thank you for having tried this quiz, I hope you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two!
Osiris. It is said that Osiris was once the ruler of Egypt but was eventually murdered by his brother during a fight. After his death, he was brought back to life by his wife Isis. They had a son named Horus, who ruled as the living king of Egypt while his father ruled the dead.
Isis. Isis is often seen with a hieroglyphic sign on her head meaning a seat or a throne. Other times she is represented by cow horns around a sun disk. Isis represents the faithful wife and loving mother, and became the most popular goddess in Egypt.
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